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John Gill's Exposition on Mark 15:7
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And there was one named Barabbas, etc..] A prisoner of that name at Jerusalem; which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him: he had been at the head of a seditious mob, and he and his accomplices were taken and put in prison: who had committed murder in the insurrection; which may be connected either with Barabbas, and read in the singular number, as it is in the Vulgate Latin version, “he had committed”; or with the seditious persons he lay bound with, and be read in the plural number, “they had committed murder”, as it is in the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions; and so in the ancient copies; and the Ethiopic renders it, “he was bound with seditious persons and murderers”; though, no doubt, he was guilty of murder as well as they; and so Peter calls him a murderer, (<440314>Acts 3:14). About this time murders were very frequently committed: the Jews say f259 that “from the time that murderers increased, the slaying of the red heifer ceased; (the reason the commentators f260 give, is, because they were known who were accustomed to commit murder;) and that was from the time that Eleazar ben Dinai came, and Techinah ben Perishah he was called; and they called him again the son of a murderer;” (see Gill on “<402716>Matthew 27:16”).
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